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Health CS Mutahi Kagwe. Kenya's Covid-19 cases have risen to 1,109 with 80 cases being announced today which is the highest number so far. This is from a sample size of 3,102 tested individuals by the Ministry of Health This is the highest number the country has encountered since the emergence of coronavirus in Kenya on 13th March this year. Kenya has increased its testing capacity by 40 per cent in the last two weeks in an effort of curbing the spread of the virus. Of the new cases, 41patients are from Nairobi county while 20 are from Mombasa county. Also Read Bishop Margaret Wanjiru Tests positive for coronavirus Siaya's cases have risen to seven and the first case originated from a person who travelled from Kibera Nairobi to Siaya.

Health Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS) Rashid Aman announced on Thursday that the total number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Kenya had risen to 396. Giving the ministry's daily update on new infections following the testing of 777 new samples, Dr Aman said 12 more people had tested positive for the coronavirus. He said seven were in Mombasa, three in Nairobi, one in Kitui and one in Wajir. The case in Wajir was its first since Kenya confirmed its first case of Covid-19 on March 13. The ministry further announced that two more patients had died, raising Kenya's death toll to 17. Since the first case was reported in Wuhan, China, on December 31, 2019, at least 3,234,915 people worldwide had been infected by April 30. The total number of deaths worldwide was 228,598 and that of recoveries at 1,009,290. The number of active cases stood at 1,997,027, with three per cent or 59,776 of them being critical and the rest mild. Worldometer's count showed that the n...